The Waddington plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
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75° on Nov. 12, 2012, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 70° in 1982.
Waddington’s center stands about 290 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 240 ft to 350 ft, a difference of 110 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Marble Hill, about 450 ft, 13 miles east-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Beekmantown Group (in part) (dolostone, limestone), from the Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 64×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Dolostone, limestone. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 14 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR; rock from the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation.
A raindrop that lands in Waddington reaches the St. Lawrence River by way of Sucker Brook and the Saint Lawrence: about 35 river miles. The St. Lawrence carries it on to the Atlantic.
Lake on the way: Lake Saint Lawrence.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Waddington; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Waddington has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 81° in July; winter nights fall to about 6° in January. About 34 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Waddington normally reaches 45° and falls to 28°. The record high is 69°, in 1959; the record low 8°, in 1971. The most rain on this date, 1.12 in, fell in 1975.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Massena International Airport, 18 miles east-northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
